Vail Resorts facing employee backlash over roommate plan

Just two weeks after pledging to commit $30 million to increase affordable workforce housing near its resorts in Colorado, Utah and California, Broomfield-based Vail Resorts is facing heat from employees over a plan to increase density in some of its workforce housing in Colorado to two people per bedroom.

The Summit Daily News reports that, after announcing what employees apparently interpreted as the mandatory “doubling-up” in bedrooms at a Keystone workforce housing facility where bunk beds were going to be added in many rooms, Vail officials told the paper that they were in fact not forcing any…